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    Brooding Chicks Moved to Chicken House

    I started 25 chicks (new hampshire, delaware, barred plymouth rock) in my basement, in a homemade brooder. I used a cold frame for the brooder that I'm going to use for gardening. I moved the chicks to the chicken house last week. Today I shot a video of their "brooder" area that I made in...
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    Adding Attachments

    I have a 1955 poultry book, (US Agriculture not copyrighted) and I would like to share a few pages about breeds of broilers. The file is pdf, scanned document but I don't see how to insert it so people can read it. I can't seem to find any information on it. Can you give me some information...
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    You Can Sex a Chicken Egg?

    I am always looking for new information to expand and broaden my views, and this subject lent itself well to expanding my views. Here is my opinion based on the information I have: 1) Someone has patented a computer readable medium with a program to determine the sex of an egg by it's...
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    This is How They Fed Chicks 100 Years Ago

    FEEDING OF YOUNG CHICKS from I.C.S. Poultryman's Handbook A Convenient Reference Book For All Persons Interested in the Production of Eggs and Poultry for Market and the Breeding of Standard-Bred Poultry for Exhibition International Textbook Company Scranton, PA 1912 All text is quoted...
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    Feeding on Pasture/Grass Only

    Is anyone raising true "free range" chickens (not tractors)? If so, how many birds and how much pasture are you using? I'm thinking I will need to fence them because I'm afraid they will wonder off into the corn fields and I will never see them again. How far do they wonder if you don't fence...
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